The Steep Approach to Garbadale
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The latest offering from Banks (The Wasp Factory)
gives a scion's-eye view of an eccentric, splintering Scottish
business family. Having secured immense wealth via the Empire!
board game (invented by a relative in 1880) and its various
offshoots, the Wopuld family must now decide whether to sell the
company: the American Spraint Corporation wants Empire! as a jewel
in its crown. As the family gathers to celebrate matriarch Grandma
Win's 80th birthday and have a board meeting, Win dispatches
grandson Fielding to find his cousin Alban, who has fled the family
to become a forester, in order to solidify her vision of the family
legacy. Banks flashes back through Alban's painful memories of his
mother (who committed suicide) and his cousin Sophie (whom he
loved) as he heads home. The book contains a plethora of family
secrets, none of which fully drive the plot, but the gothic
setting, big passions and light humor suffice.
| Autor: | Iain Banks |
| Nakladatel: | Abacus |
| ISBN: | 978-0-349-11928-1 |
| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
| Jazyk : | Angličtina |
| Druh: | 1 x kniha |
| Počet stran: | 392 |
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